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<p>Played a round at coolangatta while over there last week. Always tough with hire clubs though (irons were blades....dang!) and had a 9 on the first hole (par 5) but recovered OK for a round in the mid 80s.</p>
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<p>Course wasn't too bad but was suprised how people were encouraged to roll their carts over greens rather than around the fringe. The members I was playing with said it was common in Australia and as they play the lie year round, they did it to keep the fringe in good nick.</p>
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<p>Was quite an enjoyable arvo but I still am putting like a blind man. Had an 84 this weekend that included 40putts..... so so bad!</p> -
<p>I had a hit out at the Celtic Manor 2010 course that hosted the Ryder Cup. it's the second time I've played the course and it's just as difficult as I remembered. Some holes are just monstrous and then you look back over your shoulder and see the pro tees 100 meters further back. Played OK-isn but a little inconsistently. However I shall mostly be remembering the birdie on the 18th right in front of the gallery. :yes:</p>
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<p>ah Robert Allenby, what a guy. Fired his caddy on the course in the middle of an 81. Yes Robert, it's the caddy's fault...</p>
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<p>I'd probably sack him too</p>
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<p>Robert Allenby isn't the first player to have a disagreement with his caddie. But today, he became one of the few players to actually fire his bag-toter in the middle of a round in a PGA Tour event.</p>
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<div>Allenby has been struggling this year – he's made only seven cuts in 21 starts, and is 180th in the FedExCup points – so no one would blame him for feeling a little stressed as he teed off today in the RBC Canadian Open.</div>
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<div>He opened birdie-birdie – so far, so good – then bogeyed the 12th hole, his third hole of the day. And that's when things started to go south north of the border. Allenby had 150 yards to the green on the par-5 13th hole, his fourth hole of the day, and asked caddie Mick Middlemo for his 7-iron.</div>
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<div>Middlemo, who started toting the bag for Allenby earlier this season, argued that 8-iron was the club. Allenby eventually conceded and hit the 8 – right into the creek in front of the green. He wound up with a triple-bogey 8.</div>
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<div>As they played their way to a front-nine 43, the player and caddie got into a discussion that turned heated – and ended up with Allenby firing Middlemo after their ninth hole.</div>
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<div>"I said to him, 'You know this happens every week. This has happened for like the last three or four or five months. We keep making bad mistakes and you're not helping me in these circumstances,'" Allenby said, <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://scoregolf.com/blog/jason-logan/crazy-day-for-allenby-at-rbc-canadian-open/'>according to Canada's Score Golf</a>.</div>
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<div>Middlemo "just lost the plot at me. He just told me I could go eff myself," Allenby said. "And I said, 'Look, you need to slow down. I mean just calm down.' And then he just got right in my face as if he wanted to just beat me up."</div>
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<div>Allenby attempted to cool the situation down, he said, but the caddie "just got even closer and closer." At that point, Allenby said, "I just said, 'That's it, you're sacked," and added that Middlemo would never caddie for him again.</div>
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<div>As they completed their first nine, "we walked off and he said some smartass remark to me and I said, 'You don't deserve to be caddying out there,'" Score Golf quoted Allenby as saying. "And he just got right in my face and threatened me, so I said, 'Go.' So he left."</div>
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<div>Allenby carried his bag over to the first tee, and explained to an official that he was suddenly without a caddie. At that point, Tom Fraser, a local school principal who was in the gallery, volunteered to carry the load.</div>
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<div>The Alleby-Fraser duo birdied their first hole together, parred the next two, then bogeyed four in a row en route to a 38 and a 9-over 81 that left him at the bottom of the leaderboard. He indicated that he would withdraw before the second round.</div>
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<p>haha yea, that's not the story from the other side. </p>
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<p>Australian golfer Robert Allenby’s caddie walks off course after heated row during Canadian Open</p>
<p>FOX SPORTS July 24, 2015 11:11AM SHARE</p>
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<p>ROBERT Allenby allegedly called his caddie a “fat c†and threatened to have him “banned for life†from the PGA Tour, prompting a row that ended with the 15-year bagman quitting on the course.</p>
<p>Speaking to foxsports.com.au from Ontario, caddie Mick Middlemo revealed Allenby had abused him after a poor shot at the Canadian Open.</p>
<p>The row ended with Middlemo walking off the course and a local school principal, Tom Fraser, being called from the gallery to carry the Australian’s bag for the remainder of his round.</p>
<p>“It kept bubbling away and I said to him, ‘I dare you to say that again’. We were yelling each other a bit at this stage. There were a few innuendos and he slapped the putter back in my hand harder than he should have.</p>
<p>“A couple of the players were taken aback. I actually apologised to the guys we were playing with, SJ Park and Jon Curran, because it was pretty loud.</p>
<p>“(Allenby) said a bit later on, ‘I’m going to get a caddie banned for life from the PGA Tour today’. I said to him, ‘I assume you mean me.’ He said, ‘You’re damn right’ and he called me a ‘fat c’ again.</p>
<p>“I put the bag down and said ‘I’m done’. When I walked back to the caddie area, I got a standing ovation.â€</p>
<p>Middlemo opted to speak publicly only after hearing Allenby’s post-round quotes.</p>
<p>The veteran caddie said he “disagreed†with Allenby’s version of events.</p>
<p>“He just lost the plot at me,†Allenby said.</p>
<p>“He just told me I could go f*** myself. He just got right in my face as if he wanted to just beat me up. I said, ‘stop being a such and such and calm down and get back into the game. And he just got even closer and closer and I just said, ‘That’s it, you’re sacked’.</p>
<p>“This is the worst incident I’ve ever witnessed as a player.</p>
<p>“I’ve never been threatened and as he walked away he said, ‘I’ll be waiting for you in the car park’.</p>
<p>“He’s an Australian and he didn’t act like an Australian, let’s put it that way.â€</p>
<p>Middlemo said Allenby was well known for bullying caddies.</p>
<p>“It was never going to get violent,†he said.</p>
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<p>“I’m a pretty big bloke — 6-foot-2 and 110 kilograms — and can handle myself. He wouldn’t have said that stuff to me anywhere other than on a golf course.</p>
<p>“He’s just a bully. He likes to bully caddies. You couldn’t get away with that in any workplace in the world, but somehow he thinks it’s appropriate on a golf course.</p>
<p>“It’s the worst I’ve ever heard. But it’s not like I’m the first guy this has happened to with him. I’m the fourth caddie to walk off the golf course with him.â€</p>
<p>Allenby shot a nine-over 81 to put him in a tie for equal last place at the Canadian Open. He said he plans to withdraw from the event. His nightmare year has included a string of less-than-impressive results on the fairways and a violent abduction and robbing in Hawaii.</p>
<p>“Everything that’s gone on this year, that was the last thing I needed,†Allenby said.</p>
<p>“I’ve been obviously beaten up, robbed and stolen from, what have you in Hawaii and all that.</p>
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<p>“I haven’t dealt with it well all year, it’s been tough, and then I got something like this.</p>
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<p>haha, yeah I read this and thought BS, sounds a diplomatic story! </p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Middlemo "just lost the plot at me. He just told me I could go eff myself," Allenby said. "And I said, 'L</span><strong>ook, you need to slow down. I mean just calm down.' </strong><span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">And then he just got right in my face as if he wanted to just beat me up."</span></p>
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<p>Corporate day! perfect weather, blue skies, top of 25, no wind. It's only my 3rd round of the year, so i'm not expecting to play even passable golf. But i'll make up for it by getting pissed. </p>
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<p>Clearly I'm in the wrong industry. I've been invited to several corporate days on a Friday afternoon (some are golf related) but I have actual work to do.</p>
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<p>It's called being efficient! You make time! You are the controller!</p>
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One of the guys in my group is 76 years old. Plays 4 times a week and every shot is laser straight. Incredible.
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Played yesterday but after disastrous round that included 39 putts. Last time out was 40 putts. Neither had a single 1 putt......<br><br>
Been the similar for the past 7 or 8 rounds. Use to average 30-34 putts but no its over 2 a fkn hole!</p></blockquote>
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<p>Have booked a lesson with one of the local pros (Zaine Mickleson) and gonna try sort out my putting issues with him. Have met him a few times before down the range and he seems a good chap. Laughed pretty hard when I told him I was on a 10 handicap and how many putts I was having in my round rounds low high 70s, low 80s.</p>
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<p>I actually played some half decent golf on Friday. Still a number of duffs and wayward irons, but enough good in there to regularly contribute. Highlight was on one hole i put my drive on the fairway 100 out, so we took that. i then 9-ironed to inside 2-feet. And then i putted it in for our only birdy of the day. Felt like a fucking pro. I'd probably had 6 beers by then too. </p>
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<p>Had the lesson and got some good tips but hasnt helped a lot as yet.</p>
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<p>Had shocking round at Muriwai on the weekend. Opened with a half century on the front 9 that included 5 3 putts in first 7 holes. 15 putts coming home which was a bit better but 39 overall. Still shit golf other than from the tee block with either 3 wood or driver in hand as hit over 80% of fairways. Picked up longest drive but only had 30 stableford.</p>
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<p>Then yesterday in monthly open at my favoured Pupuke course I had the same - 30 stableford but longest drive. This time 41 fkn putts + some pretty average play off the tee.as only hit just over 50% of fairways.</p>
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<p>me too!</p>
